The last secure place for over 530 animals and birds rescued from abuse, neglect, slaughter and abandonment. Please donate or adopt to keep them safe. Please don’t forget that if you shop online through Give As You Live that helps our funding too!

Support the Farm Animal Sanctuary by insuring your pet with Animal Friends Insurance via the link. Please recommend your friends too, for each one who takes out a policy Animal Friends Insurance will donate £5 to the Sanctuary which will help towards the running cost of looking after our animals. Not only do Animal Friends have a competitive range of policies on offer, but they have also donated over £1.7 million to animal welfare charities. Click here

Some of the survivors...

Visiting the Sanctuary
Generally we are not open to the public but visits can be arranged by appointment - see contact page

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Open day - 3rd September

The Farm Animal Sanctuary is holding its annual fundraising open day on Sunday 3rd September. There are now over 500 animals including sheep, pigs, ponies, horses, alpacas, geese, chickens ,goats and some newly arrived jersey dairy calves. This is rare opportunity to meet them and the team who look after them and hear their heart rendering stories.

Calf Appeal

We recently took in 6 beautiful Jersey calves. They were allowed 72 hours of life with their mother before being taken away from her. If a kind farmer hadn’t paid for them and brought them to us they would have been shot.

Read more, and find out how you could choose the names of these calves

The latest news form the sanctuary

Alpaca's, chickens and a drake with attitude... catch up on the latest news from the Farm Animal Sanctuary here...

New adoptions

New improved animal adoption range with a free fridge magnet, please help us look after the animals. Makes a perfect gift...

Standing order

Fund Raising

Like every other Charity fundraising is one of the biggest issues and challenges facing everyone. We don't produce anything apart from fleeces once a year. Were it not for neighbour Liz, who sorts our fleeces, sells them online and at a Fibre Festival which takes place once a year, the cost of shearing would outweigh the money we receive from the Wool Marketing Board. We rely totally on donations and legacies, but as I've said so many times farm animals are right at the bottom of the pile when it comes to gaining empathy and support.

We're here not just to give the lucky ones the chance of a life of care and respect but also to support campaigns to greatly improve and implement welfare standards.

We will always be looking for people who will help us in any way to raise much needed funds.

How you can help us to fundraise.

We need to raise at least £2,500 each week, new supporters to help us do this are always very welcome. If you live locally could you do a Car Boot sale for us, we have many saleable items here but not the time. Can you ask friends, family, colleagues etc. if they have any unwanted or broken gold or silver jewellery they could donate? If you have any other ideas please let us know. Is there a local handyman/woman who has a few hours to spare to help with small repairs to field shelters, aviaries etc? All
suggestions welcome.

Why we are here

“Whoever believes that farm animals can be raised and slaughtered humanely should be here to listen to the constant bleating’s of our neighbour’s ewes. Their lambs have just been rounded up and taken to the slaughterhouse. The ewes have been frantically searching the fields looking for them for days. The lambs will bleat for the whole of the journey, their first, and what will be their last. They will get over it one way or the other, they don’t have a choice.” Janet Taylor

Visitors & contacting us

We are a small team and most hours are spent looking after the animals, therefore please telephone between the hours of 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, Monday to Friday. For emergencies, there is an answer phone available which is checked regularly.

We would love you to come and visit us and meet the animals. However, due to ground conditions, we can only accept visitors during weekends from April to October. Please call us to make an appointment (ideally giving 7 days notice) so we can make sure someone is available to show you around.

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